Edengrall News

Changes:
Added more options for the item get notifications.
Notifications now reach the player in 0.35 seconds regardless of distance after they start moving towards it. The previous behaviour is available as a option.
Changed the textures used for the map.
Removed water reflections.
Cooked foods now feed an extra equal to it's score (0 score = normal, 50 score = 150% of normal, 100 score = 200% of normal)
Added help for the tools.
Added help for the building system.

Bugfixes:
Item notifications no longer block raycasting.
Continuous sound effects like swiming or watering are now stopped when loading.
Fixed the particle effect for fully watering a tile not showing on some situations.
Fixed a nullpointer in the building scene.
Fixed a bunch of assorted null pointers.

Features:
Added a "Item get" visual effect.
Introduced a first version of the help window (Toggle with F1) that contextually shows or hides relevant help info.
* Feedback on what and when you would like to see help info is appreciated.
Added the Spinach and Sweet Potato plants.

Changes:
Updated Unity to Unity 2020.3.36f1 and the UI Package, this has caused many style visual changes to many interfaces.
Changed the volume and pitch of some sounds.
Added a sound to cutting grass (in addition to the usual scythe swing sound)

I have added Sweet potato and Spinach for a total of 31 crops (33 if you count the ornamental flowers and clovers), and I will now switch my focus to planning the return of the Faerie Village, this is a feature we had planned for later, but since my brother will be the one implementing the AI I won’t have much to do until he is done, so I either make more crops or do something else, since we have enough crops for now, so I thought adding a new feature would be better.

The Faerie Village would probably add a lot of gameplay since it was a self-contained minigame, and now it can be integrated with other features like farming, getting the faeries to help with watering and harvests

While I plan the return of the faeries my brother is adding a new feature for helping new players, a help screen that changes based on context, it will give tips and instructions based on which UI is open and the game state.

Also we now have more item drop feedback, dropped items go towards the player (just visually, to make sure it doesn’t bug out the items still enter the player inventory instantly)

Changes:
Implemented quality modifiers for the placeholder gathering spots.
Made the player icon on the map persistently blink so it does not get lost amidst the other icons.
Watering can now has different sounds when irrigating crops or missing the tile.

Bugfixes:
Fixed the disappearance of context hotkey disappearance that went unnoticed.
Fixed the bug report tool closing if the cooking window is open.

The watering can now has sound feedback when it is watering and when it fully waters the crop it plays a splash sound with a few droplet particles.

We changed how fruit crops give seeds, instead of getting the seeds when consuming or cooking the fruit, which was realistic, but very unpractical, now you get the seeds instantly on harvesting the fruit, this will make seed selection for fruit crops much easier.

We also buffed the yield of several grain crops and made them give more stacks per harvest allowing for more seed trait mutation, also added icons for carrot, turnip and beet greens, now all harvestable have icons.



We have added 2 new crops, Pumpkin and Cantaloupe.

Next week I will add Spinach and Yam, we also have more QoL changes planned for next week, keep an eye out for patchnotes.